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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Will You Graduate? Flip a Coin...

Across America's biggest cities, the odds that a ninth-grader will graduate from high school are almost equivalent to a coin toss, according to a study being released today by the America's Promise Alliance, which was founded by Colin Powell.  As you cross from the city into the suburb, you will find that the odds of graduating go up dramatically--as much as twenty-five percent for some suburbs!

Read more about the study at:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-04-01-cities-suburbs-graduation_N.htm 

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